[core-workflow] What would it take to split the stdlib out into its own git repo?

Chris Angelico rosuav at gmail.com
Sat Jul 16 20:59:57 EDT 2016


On Sun, Jul 17, 2016 at 10:54 AM, Chris Angelico <rosuav at gmail.com> wrote:
> if the repositories get split,
> I'd much rather have ./python look for ../python-stdlib as a parallel
> repo. They stand entirely separately; you simply clone both repos into
> the same directory.

Oh, and if you tell people to do it this way, you can "ln -s
../python-stdlib Lib" and commit that symlink into the repo. Existing
code needn't even be changed.

When you clone a repo that has submodules, you have to know to run
another command to update the submodules. Likewise when you pull
changes. Same diff as having two stand-alone repos. Splitting the
stdlib is going to make things a little harder no matter how it's
done, so it wants to be worthwhile.

ChrisA


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